Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman
- ISBN-10
- 0860915182
- ISBN-13
- 9780860915188
- Series
- Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman
- Category
- African American men
- Pages
- 228
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1990
- Author
- Michele Wallace
Description
Michele Wallace blasts the masculinist bias of 1960s Black politics, showing how women remained marginalised by the patriarchal culture of Black Power. She describes the ways in which traditional, male-identified myths of Black womanhood block the development of a separate female subjectivity.
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